Example sentences of "living [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
| 3 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 4 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 5 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
| 6 | He was born when Brigitte was at the top , living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier . |
| 7 | Data to be published shortly draws on experiments including observations of Freddy , the dolphin that has been living off the Northumbrian coast for four years . |
| 8 | Tomlinson has rounded on the central London teaching hospitals as though they were dole-scroungers , living off the hard work of the rest of the NHS , providing nothing in return and remaining eternally ungrateful . |
| 9 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 10 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 11 | of living for the agricultural population , guarantee regular supplies of produce on the market , and ensure reasonable food prices for the consumer . |
| 12 | In the first quarter of 1987 the discount rate was fixed at 61 per cent , but the cost of living for the full year increased by 120 per cent . |
| 13 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 14 | If you 're the one living below the noisy flat , you have to think in terms of a suspended ceiling . |
| 15 | In 1985 , according to the State Planning Council ( SEGEPLAN ) , 86 per cent of families were living below the official poverty line and 55 per cent were extremely poor . |
| 16 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 17 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |
| 18 | Living near a public course he was able to hit 200 balls a time . |
| 19 | Bosses saw nothing wrong with flying the flag — and neither did anyone else living near the Roman Carriage car company in Winklebury . |
| 20 | But the decision has been welcomed by people living near the planned venue . |
| 21 | Their report is the most comprehensive yet on the extraordinarily high incidence of leukaemia among children living near the nuclear plant . |
| 22 | Folk living near the social club at Uttoxeter , Staffs , claimed they could n't hear the telly for the strains of Danny Boy and On The Sunny Side of the Street . |
| 23 | There was some panic among the population living near the Iraqi border as civil defence procedures were perceived as inadequate in the event of Turkey being drawn into the war ; there was a spontaneous exodus from the town of Silopi in January . |
| 24 | But plans to build the hospice on a site in Upton , Wirral , were blocked after people living near the proposed development claimed the centre would cause too much disturbance and a colony of protected bats would be driven away . |
| 25 | On May 12 , 1990 , Guinea launched an international appeal for aid to its citizens living near the Liberian border in the south , whose food supplies had been depleted by the arrival of Liberian refugees since the outbreak of civil war in Liberia in December 1989 . |
| 26 | I wake up like it , I go to bed like it , I 've got it all the time that I 'm living with a bloody nightmare , all the time . |
| 27 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 28 | Many young people take living with a current girl or boyfriend for granted . |
| 29 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 30 | She is living with a friendly family that she knows . |